ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,170, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for detecting a 3D object" was invented by Hyun Kyu Lim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for detecting a three-dimensional (3D) object are provided. The apparatus includes a camera and a processor. The processor obtains a two-dimensional (2D) image using the camera, segments the 2D image to obtain free space information, extracts feature information associated with an object included in the 2D image from the 2D image, determines an attention score base...